Posted on 02/13/24 by Bailey Williams (he/him) in Revenue & Budget
Cannabis tax revenue can help communities. Legislators have other ideas. The end of recreational marijuana prohibition in Ohio has state legislators seeing green. Not so much for cannabis plants themselves, but for the expected hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue coming from legal marijuana sales each year. Last November, Ohioans voted in favor of Issue 2, which legalized adult recreational marijuana possession and use in the state. Since then, the Ohio General Assembly has considered changes to the initiated statute, but these efforts stalled at the end of last year. While the language of Issue 2 became law on... read more
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